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- Title
Occasioned Semantics: A Systematic Approach to Meaning in Talk.
- Authors
Bilmes, Jack
- Abstract
This paper puts forward an argument for a systematic, technical approach to formulation in verbal interaction. I see this as a kind of expansion of Sacks' membership categorization analysis, and as something that is not offered (at least not in a fully developed form) by sequential analysis, the currently dominant form of conversation analysis. In particular, I suggest a technique for the study of 'occasioned semantics,' that is, the study of structures of meaningful expressions in actual occasions of conversation. I propose that meaning and rhetoric be approached through consideration of various dimensions or operations or properties, including, but not limited to, contrast and co-categorization, generalization and specification, scaling, and marking. As illustration, I consider a variety of cases, focused on generalization and specification. The paper can be seen as a return to some classical concerns with meaning, as illuminated by more recent insights into indexicality, social action, and interaction in recorded talk.
- Subjects
ORAL communication; MEANING of meaning theory (Communication); SCALING (Social sciences); SEQUENTIAL analysis; CONVERSATION analysis; INDEXICALS (Semantics)
- Publication
Human Studies, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0163-8548
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10746-011-9183-z